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Swiss storage giant completes purchase of the project site for big four-hour battery, setting a tentative start-date for early 2027 construction.

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Installation of the "golden" turbine is being hailed as a "huge milestone" for a wind farm that has survived the LNP government sell-off and remains 100 per cent owned by a state utility.

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A paddock of solar and an innovative converter could allow Visy to cut gas use by 40% on one site without the added cost of a new grid connection.

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Australian thermal storage developer takes full ownership of energy precinct that once proposed to host a landmark solar thermal plant before evolving into a hybrid renewables and storage hub.

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RNs at two Prime Healthcare hospitals in Nevada and California and nurses and health care workers at a Prime facility in California gave notice that they will hold a sympathy strike for one day on September 15 in solidarity with striking nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Nurses at another Chicago hospital and at a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, will hold informational pickets in solidarity with Olympia Fields RNs on the same day.

Nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois, gave notice to Prime Healthcare today that they will hold a strike for one day on September 15 to protest the administration’s retaliation against nurses who speak up and fight for their patients.

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The world should brace for extreme heat as an exceptionally strong El Nino develops, the World Meteorological Organisation warns.

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Electric cars account for 24.9 per cent of new vehicle sales in August and outselling petrol-only and diesel vehicles individually. Plus, news of the week.

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We are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our dear APEN Oakland Leader Steering Committee Member, 陳冬花, Debbie Chen. She was such a beautiful spirit bringing joy, care and warmth in any space she joined and we will deeply miss her. She is survived by her husband and two sons.

陳冬花, Debbie Chen, born in October 1959 came to Oakland with her family from Taishan, Guangdong, China in 1994. After arriving in Oakland, she demonstrated the characteristics of resilience and diligence of Taishan women, working tirelessly in electronics and chocolate factories before dedicating herself to the In-Home Care Society (IHSS) industry, selflessly caring for the elderly and patients. Throughout her life, she worked diligently and persevered, and what she was most proud of was raising her two sons to be successful and accomplished individuals.

In addition to fighting for environmental justice with APEN, as an active member for over a decade, she was a leader in Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), a core member of the Toishan Family Association, and an active union member with SEIU 2015 and a community fitness group, Healthy Friends, that performs and practices tai chi and dance. She dedicated her life to advocate for working women and a healthy community for all. Her contributions to our community have improved our air quality, workers rights, access to jobs, clean and healthy places, safer communities, and stronger policies, both locally and statewide.

In her personal life, Donghua was full of charm and vitality. She loved singing and dancing, often displaying her confident style on stage; she diligently practiced Tai Chi, radiating boundless energy; she was also passionate about photography, always capturing beautiful moments in life through her lens, leaving countless precious memories for those around her. She loved traveling with friends and experiencing different landscapes, from Yosemite National Park to Alaska on a cruise.

Her legacy will live on through all she has accomplished, in all the ways she touched our lives, in the smiles and warmth she exuded. As another Leader Steering Committee member, Lisa Peng, has said more eloquently than we could: “Donghua, you lived a life of integrity and brilliance. You left love for your family, warmth for your community, and beauty for each and every one of us. Although you have left us today, your smile, your kindness, and your spirit will live forever in our hearts.”

 

 

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The Interim Land Grant Committee of the State Legislature met on August 26 for a presentation by Enrique Romero, Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty Division. The agenda was the Ruben A. Valerio, et al. v. Cristobal de la Serna Land Grant lawsuit.

In layman’s language, this is the lawsuit that resulted from Cultural Energy KCEI radio station’s attempt to erect a radio tower on Picuris Peak to increase its broadcast range and expand the station’s capacity. The radio station currently owns 142 acres on the mountain top that it acquired from Roy Cunnyngham but must quiet title the land with a wide range of various property claims—from individuals, deceased persons, and the Cristobal de la Serna Land Grant. These are mostly varas, or narrow strips of land that extend from the top of the mountain down through Llano Quemado to the Francis Martinez acequia.

What makes this process so difficult is that many people have not perfected the title to their land. Instead, they use the 1941 assessment survey to describe the land they own. It’s called a survey but it’s really just a map to determine who to tax. The 1941 assessment survey has no field notes, recording where the information came from, and it doesn’t show any point of origin for the survey. There are no dimensions or compass bearings for any of the lines drawn on the map. It’s not a survey that can show where exactly your land is. If you want to get a second mortgage on your property, if you want to sell your land and get title insurance, you have to actually have a professional survey made and be able to quiet title it.

In the lawsuit, Ruben A. Valerio represents his deceased father Candido Valerio, who filed the first quiet title complaint against Cultural Energy, subsequently negotiated with Robin Collier, KCEI manager, and became a plaintiff along with Cultural Energy. Cristobal de la Serna Land Grant, represented by Northern New Mexico Legal Aid, filed a motion to dismiss Cultural Energy’s quiet title suit.

In 2004 a new law was added to Chapter 49 of the Statutes of New Mexico that created a new designation of land grants that have to apply to the legislature to become political subdivisions of the state, giving them sovereign immunity from quiet title suits. The remaining Federal land grants would not have this immunity. These are the two additions:

• Section 42-11-1 grants immunity from suit to “[t]he state of New Mexico and its political subdivisions” for cases “involving a claim of title to or interest in real property except as specifically authorized by law.”

• Section 49-1-1 states that “[a]ll land grants-mercedes in the state or land grants-mercedes described in Section 49-1-2…shall be managed, controlled and governed by their bylaws, by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and as provided in [the Land Grants Act] as political subdivisions of the state.”

In 2024, when the Cristobal de la Serna Land Grant filed a motion to dismiss Cultural Energy’s quiet title suit, it cited the two above statutes. But after Cultural Energy’s attorney Ernest Padilla filed a strong brief, Eighth Judicial District Judge Emilio Chavez affirmed Cultural Energy’s right to quiet title and also noted that there has been no case law on this issue since 2004 that sets any precedent. The Land Grant appealed the district court decision to the Court of Appeals.

After the New Mexico Court of Appeals and the New Mexico Supreme Court both turned down appeals, on August 6th the NM Court of Appeals wrote a definitive 13-page opinion in favor of Cultural Energy and the Valerio estate:

“While Section 42-11-1 grants immunity to ‘political subdivisions’ from suit to quiet title, Section 49-1-1 does not declare that land grants-mercedes are political subdivisions in all respects and instead directs that land grants-mercedes should be ‘managed, controlled and governed….as political subdivisions.’ Considering the language and purpose of the Land Grants Act, as well as the nature of land grants-mercedes and common lands, we conclude that the Legislature did not intend to provide blanket immunity to land grants-mercedes for quiet title action.”

“The Land Grants Act was passed in order to ‘create a board of trustees’ that would ‘manage their common lands’ (the boards).” The common lands managed by the boards “are jointly held as private property by the heirs of the land grant,” (Rayellen, 2014-NMSC-006, ¶ 39), and the purpose of a quiet title action is “to determine and quiet the title of real property . . .  against any person or persons, claiming title thereto, or parcel or portion thereof,” (see NMSA 1978, § 42-6-1 (1945). Thus, any quiet title action involving the common lands of a land grant-merced does not involve a governmental function but instead is a private property dispute.”

If the court had decided in the Land Grant’s favor, individuals as far away as Walmart and Cruz Alta would be denied their right to quiet title their properties. It’s hard to know if the 2004 legislators understood the ramifications of their decision to amend state statutes to give land grants power over quiet title. The Court of Appeals more specifically answered that question:

“[W]e decline to rely solely on the shared language between [the statutes] and conclude that based on the nature of land grants-mercedes, the purpose of the Land Grants Act, as well as its other provisions, the Legislature did not intend for its 2004 amendment to Section 49-1-1 to extend Section 42-11-1 immunity to land grants-mercedes for suits to quiet title.”

The Cristobal de la Serna has the right to appeal to the New Mexico Supreme Court by September 8, although that court previously declined to hear the argument and sent it back to the Appeals Court. In all probability, organizations like the New Mexico Land Grant Council that supported the Cristobal de la Serna Land Grant will push to bring the issue before the legislature once again. That was expressed at the Interim Land Grant hearing by several of the attendant legislators, none of whom were in the 2004 legislature.

During that discussion, Assistant Attorney General Romero emphasized that he thought the court is stepping into the legislative role and didn’t agree that there is a distinction between land grants’ internal and external governance that inhibited their right to deny quiet title.

The Interim Committee will meet next in Taos on September 16th & 17th

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In a new op-ed published by CalMatters, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director at Restore the Delta, and Gary Mulcahy, government liaison with the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, condemn the Newsom Administration’s efforts to advance controversial land and water-use proposals, including California Forever, voluntary agreements and the Delta Tunnel. 

Drawing on their years of experiences throughout Newsom’s governorship, the authors describe a pattern of disingenuous engagement with Tribes and communities, as well as backroom deals that circumvent public input and legislative due process.

They argue that these closed-door deals are being used to advance environmentally and economically harmful boondoggles at the behest of billionaires, lobbyists, and administrative insiders. 

Barbara and Gary contend that Californians have the right to a meaningful say in decisions that will shape their future.

Read the full op-ed here. 

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This article US communities are organizing to end complicity with genocide in their backyards was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.

Dwight Hua’s roommate knocked on his door at 5:30 a.m. on May 22, saying there was a notice for nearly 50,000 people in their city of Garden Grove, California, to evacuate due to the danger of a deadly chemical explosion at a nearby GKN Aerospace plant. Hua quickly left for a shelter in a neighboring city. But he had a lot of questions. 

As the evacuation stretched over five days, advocacy groups VietRISE — where Hua is a youth programs coordinator — the Harbor Institute for Immigrant and Economic Justice, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Orange County Justice for Palestine formed a coalition to demand “transparency about why a facility tied to global hazardous weapons manufacturing is operating in the middle of working-class immigrant neighborhoods.” Research led by the local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, or PYM, found that the company manufactured parts for military vehicles, including F-35 fighter jets, which are used in Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

“No one really knew that this was what we were living close to,” Hua said. “A company that makes money off of violence abroad is not the character of Garden Grove and its residents.”

Many residents who, like Hua, live just blocks away from the facility felt enraged when they found out. The coalition joined the People’s Embargo for Palestine, an international movement to establish an arms embargo on Israel, and began organizing actions to push the city to shut down GKN Aerospace and place a moratorium on military manufacturing in Garden Grove. They have been canvassing, showing up to city council meetings and circulating a petition that has drawn more than 11,000 signatures. Addressed to the mayor and city council, the petition demands “an immediate end to the use of our tax dollars, public land and public infrastructure to manufacture, store or transport the weapons that make this genocide possible.” 

While the Garden Grove City Council has canceled meetings and omitted GKN Aerospace from meeting agendas in the months since the evacuation, Hua said, the coalition has kept on growing in size and influence. Members continue to show up to city council meetings, canvass and meet with city officials, some of whom have shown support for the embargo.

The campaign for a weapons embargo is part of a larger international movement to stop global manufacturing and shipment of weapons to Israel. From Türkiye to Italy to the U.S., localized campaigns targeted at Israeli weapons suppliers have emerged, led by community groups and unions, and often supported by PYM chapters. Their goal is to end local complicity in the genocide — and ensure worker and community safety — through bans on weapons shipments through local airports and seaports, as well as shutdowns and moratoriums on weapons manufacturing facilities in residential areas.

Putting communities at risk for Israel

A coalition of community groups is leading an embargo campaign in New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport, where dangerous explosives and F-35 bomber components bound for Israel have passed through the same runways as passenger flights. The campaign is calling on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to end arms shipments through public infrastructure. Most of the coalition’s efforts have been geared toward organizing and educating workers, especially unionized workers in warehouses and on planes. 

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Abdullah Shehadeh, communications co-chair of Break the Chain, the coalition leading the campaign, said that workers were unaware they were handling explosives bound for Israel because they were mislabeled. 

“Workers feel very scared about what they’re doing in their day to day, not knowing that complicity like this is even possible for them,” Shehadeh said. “They didn’t sign up to be part of a supply chain of genocide.”

In outreach to workers, volunteers with the coalition also point out the dangers of handling explosives, noting that a munitions plant in Tennessee which manufactured the same explosives experienced a blast last year that destroyed an entire building and killed 16 people. 

Organized by New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter, Break the Chain was founded in 2025 by Palestinian liberation organizers in New York who wanted to focus on a tangible campaign to organize labor. 

The coalition is advocating for more transparency for workers and the public to know what is passing through their workplaces and communities. Volunteers with the coalition post educational flyers in Queens, New York, where many airport workers live, and hand them out on the air train that workers use to commute. The coalition encourages small businesses in the area to display informational posters and hold events in their spaces. A tool on the coalition website lets workers search for whether their employers are complicit in the genocide.

“It’s their right to know what they’re moving and to not be a part of a war machine that they didn’t sign up for,” Shehadeh said. “They should be moving civilian goods, not military goods or bombs going to a genocide.” 

Break the Chain also advocates for labor unions to pass resolutions calling for a ceasefire and end to military aid, to bargain for contract protections for workers who refuse to contribute to the supply chain of Israeli arms, and to work with elected city officials to explore expanding the rights of working-class New Yorkers. After meetings with union leaders and working groups, more than 20 unions have signed the coalition’s resolutions, including the United Auto Workers, Association of Flight Attendants, National Education Association and 1199SEIU.

Shehadeh said the coalition’s activism is “an intersection between labor, Palestine, and community and public safety.” He is concerned that if the explosives are mishandled or improperly stored, there could be a catastrophic explosion threatening the lives of the more than hundred thousand people who pass through JFK every day, as well as nearby communities. 

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Garden Grove and the area of Queens surrounding JFK are both predominantly immigrant communities. Shehadeh said the transfer of weapons through JFK is an example of how “massive private profit fuels endless conflict, and the environmental health and moral burdens fall on working-class communities here in New York City.”

“A handful of billionaires line their pockets with profits from weapons contracts, while we are seeing crumbling infrastructure in our subways here in New York City; we’re seeing climate change get worse and worse,” Shehadeh said. 

Embargo campaigns at the ports

Activists in Texas have called on the Port of Houston to place an arms embargo at their ports, where critical parts for the F-35 fighter jet pass through to Israel. Upon learning from a PYM report that the Houston port was shipping parts for the same weapons used to bomb schools, refugee camps and hospitals, activists came together with PYM and local groups to form the Houston Arms Embargo Campaign in 2024.

The campaign took inspiration from PYM’s global Mask off Maersk campaign, which calls on people to get Maersk to end its contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and Israeli Ministry of Defense to ship military components to Israel. Under the contracts, the logistics and shipping giant handles everything from tactical vehicles used to transport Palestinian prisoners  to parts for armored tanks and aircraft and artillery systems used for slaughter in Gaza and Lebanon. According to a recent report published by PYM and Oxfam, Maersk shipped millions of pounds of cargo to Israeli military manufacturer, Elbit Systems, between October 2023 and July 2025.

PYM organizer Fouad Salah said that localizing the campaign has helped activate constituencies from students and workers to faith communities, and built relationships with 40 national and local organizations, including other Palestinian campaigns, and anti-gentrification, Black and Latino groups. 

There are similar campaigns at major ports in California, Louisiana, New Jersey and more. In New Jersey, activists used their own bodies and cars to block a port from delivering weapons to Israel in May.

“So many of the ports in this country are implicated in the transport of military cargo that’s used in an ongoing genocide, and I think this is a really important piece because this is public infrastructure, these are not military ports,” Salah said. “As constituents, we should have a say in what happens with our public infrastructure.”

A child attempts to strike a piñata resembling a F-35 aircraft at a picnic hosted by Houston Arms Embargo in late July. (Courtesy of Houston Arms Embargo)

Like the Break the Chain campaign, the Houston Arms Embargo Campaign has been flyering at community centers, parks, malls, mosques and churches. They have also circulated the Houston Arms Embargo petition, engaging constituents in the idea of an arms embargo and encouraging them to get involved. The campaign has also held free lunches provided by local restaurants for people interested to learn more about their work. In July, they held a picnic at a park to bring the community together for the campaign’s one-year anniversary, which was well-attended despite the Texas heat.

“The power is with the people, but for the people to exercise that power, they need to be educated and conscious of what’s going on, and so a lot of our tactics revolve around getting the average Houstonian aware and agitated about what’s happening at the port,” Salah said.

Many people Salah comes across don’t know much about how the ports near their homes are shipping weapons to Israel; once they find out, he said, they generally support the campaign and want to help. He said many people “have watched Palestinian children limbless crying for their mothers and fathers because of a genocide being committed by weapons manufactured and transported from the United States, and at a certain point, there is an ethical line that a person draws.”

He said that having a localized campaign at the ports gives people a place to feel like they can do something about it. 

“We were able to build a campaign that took [people’s general desire] to stop the genocide in Gaza, and hone it in to something that is happening in our city,” Salah said. “I think this gave people a sense of real purpose and real direction. It gave them a real, concrete, tangible thing that they could channel their energy into.”

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Similarly, Hua said that having a community-based coalition has empowered residents by giving them a platform for action.

“Having a coalition has really been a space for community members to be able to feel empowered to be involved in shaping their community,” Hua said. “We want to continue to strengthen the community power and not let this get swept under the rug, and so we are continuing to show up to city council meetings and continuing to build that power.”

This article US communities are organizing to end complicity with genocide in their backyards was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.

Nearly 50 years ago, two young organizations were both getting their start. 

In 1978, Sammy Hammons and his mentor, Tommy Brown, founded B&H Toolworks in Richmond with a vision of building a world-class manufacturing company in Kentucky. At nearly the same time, Mountain Association, founded in 1976, was beginning its work to expand economic opportunity across Appalachia by investing in local businesses and local leaders.  

B&H Tool Works has grown from a small startup into a sophisticated manufacturer serving industries ranging from automotive and aerospace to defense and transportation. 

Tommy was a respected metal worker and machinist educator at Eastern Kentucky University, and had first met Sammy as a student. With Sammy’s interest in tooling and machining, the two men began to partner, taking on repair work and small jobs that came their way.  

“It was a hobby shop. Something we loved to do,” Sammy said of the early days. 

The business grew quickly. In its first year, B&H generated about $30,000 in revenue. By year two, sales had climbed to $100,000, and the company had opportunities that suggested it could reach $750,000 the following year. The challenge was financing that growth. 

At the time, Mountain Association, then known as MACED, was also just getting started in community economic development. We were founded with a primary purpose to work alongside entrepreneurs to help strengthen businesses from the inside out. However, after a few years, staff realized entrepreneurs like Sammy and Tommy weren’t able to access financing from traditional lenders.  

Launching our loan fund in 1981, B&H became one of the organization’s earliest loan clients and one of our longest lasting success stories, but the growth was not without challenges. 

More than a Loan 

As MACED and B&H began to work together on the business’s projections, MACED staff found that while demand was strong, management systems needed improvement. B&H’s accounting indicated a small profit, but a deeper analysis revealed it was actually operating at a loss. Instead of shying away from the risk, MACED worked with B&H’s leadership to develop a plan for growth, improve management practices, and invest in needed equipment. 

Based on that plan, MACED provided $100,000 in financing, as well as hands-on business support. Within just three months, B&H grew from 12 employees to 21 and became profitable. 

Sammy and Tommy were then able to purchase land and build a 1,200-square-foot facility. Demand continued to grow, helped in part by opportunities connected to Toyota’s arrival in Kentucky. Then came a major setback. A lawsuit involving the original property owner dragged on for three years, making traditional lenders hesitant to provide financing just as the company needed working capital most. 

“We were growing with no cash flow,” Sammy recalled. 

Looking for help, he again contacted MACED.  

“They sent Ed McCormick out here. He audited us, and we hit it off great.” 

Over the years, McCormick became a trusted advisor. MACED helped B&H modernize its accounting and management systems, purchase equipment, and eventually expand into Rockcastle County. 

“We got all the creditors all lined up, but we didn’t have enough to put down,” Sammy said of the expansion. 

They worked with our Lending Team on a creative arrangement of a preferred stock investment that provided the capital needed to open that second facility. Later, B&H was able to buy out that investment, creating what Sammy describes as “a win for everybody.” 

The People Behind the Numbers 

For Sammy, yes, the equipment, square footage, and sales figures over the last five decades matter, but his greatest success is 110+ employees. 

“What I’m most proud of is providing good quality jobs. We probably spend over $5 million a year in payroll. And we have workers who’ve been here three to four decades, and many who have happily retired.”  

During a recent tour of B&H, Sammy walked us through the now 120,000-square foot Richmond facility, stopping every few minutes to introduce his staff. At nearly every workstation, there was a story worth telling—some employees had spent more than 30 or 40 years with the company and were approaching retirement. A newer hire was only on his third day of work. Then there was a young employee whose father and grandfather had both had careers at B&H. Now he is building a career there himself after graduating from technical college. 

As Sammy introduced each person, he knew their histories and their families. He spoke to the role each has played in building the company that generates millions in sales each year, feeding automotive and other industrial clients like Toyota in Georgetown and Link-Belt with essential metal parts. 

For those of us who work in community economic development, getting to see Sammy with his employees and, to think of how we helped get this started all those years ago, was a great reminder of why this work matters. 

“The field of economic development often equates success with how many jobs are created and saved. Those numbers are important, but they aren’t the whole picture of how meaningful investments can be,” said Leslie Ferguson-Oles, Mountain Association’s Chief Advancement Officer. “Every person Sammy introduced us to as we walked represented a story, a family, and a career.”  

As Mountain Association celebrates its 50th anniversary, B&H Tool Works’ growth from a small startup into a sophisticated manufacturer, now serving industries ranging from automotive and aerospace to defense and transportation, stands as a powerful example of what can happen when we invest in Kentuckians.  

To learn more about our 50 years of history, please visit here.

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